I explore Llama for Windows with an RTX 5090 and Ryzen 9 9950X, comparing Gemma 4 and Qwen benchmarks, VRAM needs, and local AI performance.

NVIDIA today announced the availability of NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops, bringing together RTX graphics and NVIDIA's full-stack ...

Microsoft promises one machine for dev, AI, and gaming, and mostly gets there.

Finally, Microsoft’s free PowerToys earns a spot on every PC I buy and use. Available freely from the Microsoft Store and ...

Build a Python bot that reads Apex Legends patch notes and pings Discord the moment the Season 30 Marked tier list shifts. 12 steps, full code.

Build your own Apex Legends Season 29 Overclocked tier list with a 12-step Python scoring method covering Axle, patch 29.1, ...

The October Windows 11 update promises Bluetooth audio fixes, restores file previews, and lets you remap the Copilot key.

Python 3.15 brings native Arm64 support to Windows on Arm, with 94% package compatibility and new GitHub Actions runners.

Long time no see!It has been a while since my last post, but I plan to continue writing articles about things that catch my ...

Anaconda now hosts 2,500 Arm packages, while NumPy and SciPy publish native wheels to aid data scientists migrating off ...

Python 3.15's UTF-8 default reduces environment-dependent behavior when no encoding is specified. We look at what it means ...

Today all the cool languages and runtimes pledge allegiance to UTF-8, including Rust, Go, and Node.js (JavaScript itself prefers UTF-16 for internal encoding). Most code editors, from Visual Studio ...